There's gold in them thar hills! Eureka!

[gwyn]

Thanks to the help of laurashapiro, I managed to get a workable large-window, manageable file size, Divx avi file of my new vid, and finally, after many cranky emails with the annoying new web hosts, get this vid uploaded. I may still tweak some settings and try for a less jerky QT file, or maybe even give 3ivx a try at a future date and see if that will improve image quality, but overall, outside of some stuttering on the action scenes, I'm pleased with how this turned out and especially pleased to be able to make it available in a more viewable format. It's not perfect, especially in movement scenes, but different players may help that. In the long run it was only 6 more MB than a smaller window, so I didn't make the smaller size available, because at that point, it doesn't seem that much worse to just DL the extra.

Anyways. The vid is called Loaded Gun, the song is by Hednoize, and the fandom is of course The Fast and the Furious. I know no one is interested, but I will post later about my thoughts while making it and the process, more for my own amusement than anyone else's, I'm sure. The DL is 29.1MB, and this one is MILES better in VLC than viewing in a regular QuickTime window, so follow the links on the vid page and grab VLC media player if you haven't already. VLC really brings out the vibrant colors, smooths the jerky action scenes, and pixelates the fast edits way less. I don't normally attach lyrics, but there is a link there for some if you need them -- whoever transcribed lyrics and has passed them around the Net was, IMO, utterly demented and hearing impaired, so I've provided them here since I don't want people to get mistaken ideas about what the vid is saying.

If you have any troubles DLing, please let me know. I had to use a different method (mutters darkly about the new web hosts) this time so I'm not sure how well everything uploaded. As always, feedback of any kind is welcome.

Comments

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

Wow that was great! I only know TF&TF through your and lierdumoa's vids (and what she told me of the movie when I was confused), but it's enough to appreciate what you've done here. You really put Brian in the driver's seat for most of it and then it switches very smoothly into this sense of tension where Dom is in charge and that last shot actually gave me chills. My favorite parts were the quick cut sections, especially the first one at the end where you have them shifting. Very cool.

The quality is great. I may have to corner laura on AIM and ask her to help me figure out why my DivX isn't working. :)

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is definitely not, I'm afraid, terrifically accessible to someone unfamiliar with the story. But I wanted it to be a little more complex than my first one, so I knew that would be the tradeoff in some respects. But I'm glad you enjoyed it despite that inacessibility!

I was so lost about the effects, just not sure what to do and feeling as if I HAD to have some, but in the end, I think the fast cuts turned out to be a better effect than anything else. Sometimes, the basics are the best. ;-)

And I still need to find out about your 3ivx stuff, just because I'd love to see if I could get this looking as smooth and lovely as Cold, Cold Water. I definitely learned a few things about Divx this time, though why it is the way it is baffles me.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

In the course of poking around with DivX trying to help out Gwyneth, I think I realized why you're generating only a log file and not an actual .avi -- I found this happened if I set the codec to multi-pass. Try single pass encoding and see what happens.